ANCIENT steps which allow people to cross a river in a national park have been destroyed by Storm Angus. The Tarr Steps, which date back to 1000BC and English fokelore says were built by the devil,… ...

The Tarr Steps was so valued it had been designated by English heritage as a Grade 1 Listed Building - and was a Scheduled Ancient Monument.

A medieval bridge is to get new protection as part of a £150,000 flood protection scheme, Somerset Live reports. The Tarr ...

A historic medieval bridge in rural Somerset will be protected as part of a major flood prevention scheme costing nearly £150 ...

The longest and oldest bridge of its kind, the Tarr Steps in England’s Exmoor National Park is made of a closely connected series of stone slabs that date back thousands of years and are rumored ...

The Tarr Steps on Exmoor are made of stones weighing between one or two tonnes each and many were swept away by the River Barle on 22 December. Stones have been washed away in the past, ...

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Slabs from the middle of the Tarr Steps on Exmoor, near Withypool, washed downstream during recent flooding in Somerset. The structure is an ancient "clapper bridge" over the River Barle - slabs ...

Tarr Steps made safe The ancient stone footbridge on Exmoor has been rebuilt. Some steps had been washed away just months after £10,000 had been spent repairing damage from previous flooding.

A 50m-wide bridge at a Somerset tourist attraction will have to be rebuilt after about half of it was washed away by a swollen river.